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Paid articleThe Sadness of the American Father (June 2000)
~ n the controversy over the fate of Cuban boat boy Elian Gonzalez, the familiar sparring between anti-Communists and anti-anti-Communists and the complicated debates about freedom versus...
Paid articleRussia Watch (II) I Zhirinovsky Up Close (February 1994)
Zhirinovsky Up Close by Cathy Young T wo years ago, a columnist in one of Moscow's liberal papers quipped that tapes of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's speeches were outselling those of professional...
Paid articleRussian Presswatch /Muzzling Through (January 1994)
Muzzling Through by Cathy Young / n this latest Russian revolution, both liberal and conservative American commentators—with the unappealing exception of Stephen Cohen, Jerry Hough, and the...
Paid articleThe Russian Presswatch/Prophet Sharing (September 1993)
1 n June, the members of Russia's Fourth Estate were called upon once again to defend freedom of the press. Under a plan to partially privatize the Ostankino State Broadcasting Company, the...
Paid articleRussia Votes Yes (July 1993)
Moscow M oscow streets in 1993 bring to mind those "find ten things that are wrong with this picture" games with a palm tree sticking out in the middle of a snowy mountainscape. Looking around as I...
Paid articleRussian Presswatch / In the Name of Humanity (April 1993)
I f the Clinton administration is shaping up to look like soap opera, what genre can adequately describe the politics of post-Communist Russia? Theater of the absurd, perhaps. The end of 1992 was...
Paid articleRussia Watch/Evil Emperors (February 1993)
In late September, Russia marked the 600th anniversary of the death of the Orthodox saint, Father Sergius of Radonezh. The saint gazed balefully at frazzled Muscovites from giant posters on some of...
Paid articleRussian Presswatch/Dead Meat (December 1992)
How much was your advance? Didn't you have something to gain from testifying against Clarence Thomas?" Meanwhile, those who might have been brazen enough to ask such questions during a radio or...
Paid articleRussian Presswatch/Lessons in Liberty (November 1992)
Lessons in Liberty by Cathy Young ne year after a gang of hardliners Novodvorskaya, the impetuous leader of things were "good"; 63 percent, "fair"; 0 botched their coup and the Soviet the...
Paid articleRussian Presswatch/Up for Grabs (October 1992)
Up for Grabs by Cathy Young / n July, food prices rose by an average of 8 percent. The Constitutional Court held hearings in the case of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Crowds of...
Paid articleRussian Presswatch / Patriot Games (September 1992)
Patriot Games by Cathy Young Aletter from Ada T., the elderly music teacher at whose Moscow apartment I stayed for a week last November—and who certainly feels no nostalgia for the old...
Paid articleRussian Presswatch/Yesterday's Gone (August 1992)
Yesterday's Gone by Cathy Young Less than a year after the hardline coup in Moscow, Gorbachev, back from the United States, gives an interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda blasting Yeltsin for his...
Paid articleRussia Watch/The Dispossessed (June 1992)
RUSSIA WATCH AV 7'. 1 -03 T rti The Dispossessed by Cathy Young Early in this century, revolutions born of utopian visions to reshape human life seemed about to bring intellectuals to...
Paid articleRussian Presswatch/Who Will Pay? (May 1992)
Who Will Pay? by Cathy Young Even as Richard Nixon argues for more aid to help Russia stay the Yeltsin course, debate continues over whether that course is the correct one. At the Cato Institute's...
Paid articleRussian Presswatch/C/assified Information (April 1992)
self on the defensive, the press quickly lost whatever interest it still had in the Flowers story. The day after Clinton's "60 Minutes" appearance, Flowers held her own press conference to call him...
Paid articleRussia Watch/ "Democrats," (March 1992)
"Democrats" by Cathy Young /s there anything left to add to the obituaries for the Soviet Union? It's too bad the Yeltsin people didn't stick with the original plan of lowering the Soviet flag over...
Paid articleMoscow Streetwatch/Hard Times (February 1992)
Hard Times by Cathy Young On my very first night in Moscow (November 22), I turned on the television news to hear the anchors refer to "the republics of the former Soviet Union." My entry visa,...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Tolstaya City (January 1992)
Tolstaya City by Cathy Young Apage one cartoon in Komsomolskaya Pravda shows a bug-eyed, disheveled demonstrator with a banner that reads, NICHEVO NE PONIMAYU!—best translated as, WHAT THE HELL IS...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/New World Disorder (December 1991)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH NEW WORLD DISORDER T he giddiness set off by the Great August Capitalist Revolution—expressed on the August 27 cover of the weekly Novoye Vremya ("New Time") with the picture of...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Free at Last (November 1991)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH FREE AT LAST by Cathy Young A man in Moscow comes into a café and says, "Wallet; bring me coffee a rolt and today's copy of Pravda. " "I'm sorry" the waiter says, "but I can't...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/On the Eve (October 1991)
If that is the direction in which our culture is headed, the day may be coming when all films are films about other films—unless they are quasi-documentaries. The summer season has produced some...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Growing Pains (September 1991)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH GROWING PAINS by Cathy Young Less than a year after the Soviet Union received its own (far more verbose and far less clear-cut) version of the First Amendment, the Law on the...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Spy Magazine (August 1991)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH SPY MAGAZINE by Cathy Young It used to be that whenever the KGB wanted something to appear in the press—say, a denunciation of the subversive doings of human rights groups—a...
Paid articleThe Booksellers' Spectator/Paste Tests (August 1991)
THE BOOKSELLERS' SPECTATOR TASTE TESTS by Cathy Young All was not PC at the American ..Booksellers' Association annual convention, held from May 31 to June 4 at the Jacob Javits Center in New...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/The Gorby Club (July 1991)
THE GORBY CLUB by Cathy Young T he beleaguered Mikhail Gorbachev .i. has a fan club—and no, its president is not Stephen F. Cohen. An interview with the general director of the Klub Gorbi, as the...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Mr. Personality (June 1991)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH MR. PERSONALITY by Cathy Young H ere is, courtesy of perestroika, a revolutionary way to measure political weight: in pounds and ounces (or kilos and grams). The March 8, 1991,...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Updating the Pozner File: An Interview (May 1991)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH UPDATING THE POZNER FILE: AN INTERVIEW JT ust when you thought it was safe to go back to the bookstore here comes, from Avon Book% a paperback of Vladimir Pozner's Parting with...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Saving Face (April 1991)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH SAVING FACE by Cathy Young I Buln Nikolai Gogol's classic tale Tams I ba, the fierce Cossack hero exclaims, as he shoots his son who has defected to the enemy: "I have given...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Taking Care of Business (March 1991)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS Today, we take a lens to the Soviet media in trying times. Independent news agencies have their phones cut off; provocative TV shows are canceled and...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Solidarity With Saddam (February 1991)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH SOLIDARITY WITH SADDAM T ast September, when the middleaged man outside the office of Moscow News who tried to sell yours truly a photocopied manual of "365 sexual positions"...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Moscow a Go-Go (January 1991)
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL MOSCOW A GO-GO by Cathy Young rr ravelers who have noted a pleasant 1 change in the manners of guards at Soviet border checkpoints—from "What are you doing in our country,...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Surrender the Pink (December 1990)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH SURRENDER THE PINK by Cathy Young It is one thing to watch the Soviet shevik ideology and incitement of class press from a comfortable American hatred . . . we must free the...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Suicide Solution (November 1990)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH SUICIDE SOLUTION A dd a new syndrome to the annals of psychiatric literature: "perestroika-related suicide." The term was coined by Dr. Ivan P. Dikiy and his colleagues at the...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Good Soldiers (October 1990)
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL GOOD SOLDIERS by Cathy Young Prague Nearly a year after the "Velvet Revolution," Prague offers a remarkable mix of lingering Soviet-style socialism and nascent Western-style...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Death and Despair (September 1990)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH DEATH AND DESPAIR In a recent letter to the youth daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, one reader took a bold and defiant stand: he was happy to have been born in the Soviet Union. Yes,...
Paid articleExciting Times (August 1990)
SOVIET PRESSWATCH EXCITING TIMES by Cathy Young W hen growing up in the Soviet Union, I hardly ever read the papers. With their front-page photos of beaming workers and headlines like "Building a...
Paid articleCreeping Capitalism in Soviet Russia (March 1990)
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 3 / MARCH 1990 Cathy Young CREEPING CAPITALISM IN SOVIET RUSSIA The problem with Soviet attitudes toward free-market competition stems not from a populace...
Paid articleThe Poverty of Communism, by Nick Eberstadt (June 1989)
D uring the Reagan-Gorbachev summit of December 1987, a gentleman with a Manhattan address straight out of Tom Wolfe took out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for better mutual...
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